| | In this regard, it is worth noting recent claims that this selection included only Israeli Jews. Such claims are false. It is beyond dispute that at least 10 non-Israeli Jews were obliged by the hijackers to join the group of 84 Israelis. It is also indisputable that a number of Israeli dual nationals and non-Israeli Jews succeeded through subterfuge in joining the group that was released. These two facts suggest, unsurprisingly, that the hijackers were unable to ascertain with forensic certainty the ethno-religious identity of all their hostages. | | In this regard, it is worth noting recent claims that this selection included only Israeli Jews. Such claims are false. It is beyond dispute that at least 10 non-Israeli Jews were obliged by the hijackers to join the group of 84 Israelis. It is also indisputable that a number of Israeli dual nationals and non-Israeli Jews succeeded through subterfuge in joining the group that was released. These two facts suggest, unsurprisingly, that the hijackers were unable to ascertain with forensic certainty the ethno-religious identity of all their hostages. |
| − | But the undisputed involuntary presence of a number of non-Israeli Jews among the hostages refutes the notion that the hijackers did not also target people of this description among the passengers. Such benign indifference would have been entirely out of character for members of the Revolutionary Cells, given their known targeting of non-Israeli Jews in Germany.</blockquote></ref><ref>Daniel S. Mariaschin, [https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-enduring-message-of-the-rescue-at-entebbe/ The enduring message of the rescue at Entebbe], JC, July 7, 2021.<blockquote>At Entebbe, 148 non-Jewish hostages were separated from the 94 Jewish passengers, most of them Israeli nationals, and the Air France crew. The non-Jewish hostages were released within two days; the terrorists made clear the Jewish passengers would be killed if their demands were not met. The Ugandan government, led by its infamous leader Idi Amin, announced its support for the hijackers, punctuated with an appearance by Amin himself in the airport terminal hall in which the hostages were being held.</blockquote></ref> was so outrageous that it prompted Hans-Joachim Klein to abandon ''RZ'' (Revolutionary Cells) as this reminded WW2.<ref>Bougereau, Jean Marcel., Klein, Hans-Joachim. The German Guerrilla: Terror, Reaction, and Resistance. United Kingdom: Cienfuegos Press, 1981. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ntPpAAAAIAAJ&q=%22i+immediately+associated+that+with+what+had+happened+at+the+freight+yards%22 31]. | + | But the undisputed involuntary presence of a number of non-Israeli Jews among the hostages refutes the notion that the hijackers did not also target people of this description among the passengers. Such benign indifference would have been entirely out of character for members of the Revolutionary Cells, given their known targeting of non-Israeli Jews in Germany.</blockquote></ref><ref>Daniel S. Mariaschin, [https://jewishchronicle.timesofisrael.com/the-enduring-message-of-the-rescue-at-entebbe/ The enduring message of the rescue at Entebbe], JC, July 7, 2021.<blockquote>At Entebbe, 148 non-Jewish hostages were separated from the 94 Jewish passengers, most of them Israeli nationals, and the Air France crew. The non-Jewish hostages were released within two days; the terrorists made clear the Jewish passengers would be killed if their demands were not met. The Ugandan government, led by its infamous leader Idi Amin, announced its support for the hijackers, punctuated with an appearance by Amin himself in the airport terminal hall in which the hostages were being held.</blockquote></ref> was so outrageous that it prompted Hans-Joachim Klein to abandon ''RZ'' (Revolutionary Cells) as this reminded WW2.<ref name=jhk>Bougereau, Jean Marcel., Klein, Hans-Joachim. The German Guerrilla: Terror, Reaction, and Resistance. United Kingdom: Cienfuegos Press, 1981. [https://books.google.com/books?id=ntPpAAAAIAAJ&q=%22i+immediately+associated+that+with+what+had+happened+at+the+freight+yards%22 31]. |
| | That the idea of writing a book came to me at that time and that no one came along later and talked me into it. Just as no one talked me into writing the letter to Spiegel in which I denounced the planned assassinations of Galinski and Lipinski. | | That the idea of writing a book came to me at that time and that no one came along later and talked me into it. Just as no one talked me into writing the letter to Spiegel in which I denounced the planned assassinations of Galinski and Lipinski. |
| | *Karmon, Ely. Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations: Revolutionaries, Nationalists and Islamists. Netherlands: Brill, 2005. [https://books.google.com/books?id=v8pKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 94]. | | *Karmon, Ely. Coalitions Between Terrorist Organizations: Revolutionaries, Nationalists and Islamists. Netherlands: Brill, 2005. [https://books.google.com/books?id=v8pKEAAAQBAJ&pg=PA94 94]. |
| | <blockquote>Hans-Joachim Klein decided to abandon the RZ when he realized that his comrades were behaving like the Nazis in Auschwitz by separating the Jewish passengers from the non-Jewish ones after the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe. Klein also condemned the RZ plot to assassinate Galinski, leader of the German Jewish community and exposed the plot.</blockquote></ref> | | <blockquote>Hans-Joachim Klein decided to abandon the RZ when he realized that his comrades were behaving like the Nazis in Auschwitz by separating the Jewish passengers from the non-Jewish ones after the hijacking of the Air France plane to Entebbe. Klein also condemned the RZ plot to assassinate Galinski, leader of the German Jewish community and exposed the plot.</blockquote></ref> |